Tag: media

• The end of the metaverse hopefully

  February 5, 2022

  Meta, the company that owns Facebook, had a pretty bad day yesterday. The company, on an earnings call, reported that it had lost users for the first time in its… more ›

• Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court.

  January 18, 2022

  Research libraries preserve classic texts, films and recordings, but when it comes to video games, it gets complicated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/01/12/video-game-preservation-emulation/ more ›

• Rest of World’s 21 most engaging and popular stories of 2021

  December 28, 2021

  Robot dogs that enforce social distancing. Factory workers who’re drawing millions of views on TikTok. And a duo of fact-checkers fighting against a post-truth dystopia. https://restofworld.org/collection/rest-of-worlds-21-most-engaging-and-popular-stories-in-2021/ more ›

• China’s Biggest Movie Star Was Erased From the Internet, and the Mystery Is Why

  September 19, 2021

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• Wanghong Vibe Check

  August 22, 2021

  This dispatch is the entirety of S01 Episode 9. Cover illustration by FATFISHBOY. Krish: Welcome to our season finale. The word “wanghong” (网红) is inescapable in China. It’s everywhere as… more ›

• The Chinese content farms behind Factory TikTok

  June 27, 2021

  It’s hard to describe Factory TikTok as just one type of video, but each clip — in its own way — offers a strange glimpse into how mundane objects are… more ›

• China’s livestream queen makes nice with Beijing

  June 13, 2021

  Huang Wei tried to break into China’s showbiz in the mid-2000s. It didn’t work out. Fifteen years later, Huang, now 36, is a household name. Now known as Viya, Huang… more ›

• Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent learn Netflix lessons in content fight

  June 9, 2021

  HONG KONG — China’s long-form video platforms are stepping up acquisitions of popular media content and producing their own shows to lure back viewers from short-video apps. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertainment/Alibaba-Baidu-and-Tencent-learn-Netflix-lessons-in-content-fight2 more ›

• The “TikTok intifada”

  May 23, 2021

  Usually Palestinians and their allies struggle to have their narrative break through online. Not anymore. Israel unquestionably has the military advantage in its ongoing conflict with Hamas. But in the… more ›

• What Is an Entertainment Company in 2021 and Why Does the Answer Matter?

  May 9, 2021

  Historically, we defined an entertainment company around its core offering. Marvel was a comic book company, Mattel a toy company, ESPN a sports network, etc. When people think of the… more ›